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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Nanomaterials Volume 2011, Article ID 439162, 6 pages doi:10.1155/2011/439162 Research Article Ultrasonochemical-Assisted Synthesis of CuO Nanorods with High Hydrogen Storage Ability Gang Xiao,1 Peng Gao,1, 2 Longqiang Wang,1 Yujin Chen,1, 2 Ying Wang,1 and Guoli Zhang1 1 College of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering and College of Science, Harbin Engineering University, Heilongjiang, Harbin 150001, China 2 Key Laboratory of Superlight Materials and Surface Technology, Harbin Engineering University, Ministry of Education, Harbin 150001, China Correspondence should be addressed to Peng Gao, gaopeng@ Received 21 February 2011; Revised 24 April 2011; Accepted 13 May 2011 Academic Editor: Junliang Zhang Copyright © 2011 Gang Xiao et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Uniform CuO nanorods with different size have been synthesized in a water-alcohol solution through a fast and facile ultrasound irradiation assistant route. Especially, the as-prepared CuO nanorods have shown a strong size-induced enhancement of elec- trochemical hydrogen storage performance and exhibit a notable hydrogen storage capacity and big BET surface area. These results further implied that the as-prepared CuO nanorods could be a promising candidate for electrochemical hydrogen storage applications. The observation of the comparison experiments with different concentrations of NaOH, ethanol, CTAB, and HTMA while keeping other synthetic parameters unchanged leads to the morphology and size change of CuO products. 1. Introduction